"The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania." However, the castle never belonged to the real Dracula, who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince.

Bran Castle is most famous for being the assumed residence of Dracula. Vlad Tepes, the real-life inspiration for the fictional vampire, attacked the fortress several times and even conquered it ...

THE "true" home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had been left ...

My trip was hosted by Dacia – arguably Romania’s biggest success story in recent ... However, that is not to say that a real Dracula did not live in Bran Castle. The castle had small connections with ...

The real Vlad never set foot in Romania’s Bran Castle — widely taken as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula — but it hasn’t stopped it drawing visitors in their droves. Murdered by his ...

Vlad III’s cruelty was real, but his reputation as a villain ... Other locations, like Bran Castle (popularly known as Castle Dracula) in Romania have no connection with Vlad III.

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hilltop castle in search of the truth about Dracula. “He was a Romanian ...

The Caldararius want people to introduce the real Transilvania. Their menu has Romanian dishes ... the home of Bran Castle, which foreign tourists visit to get the Count Dracula experience.

For years, internet users have shared a sepia-toned photo of a castle on a hill and identified it in captions as an authentic photo, taken in the 1920s, of the abandoned castle of the real Dracula ...